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[michyms]

gorilla:

No worries michyms. Yes a good idea! I've borrowed the books from the library

but long wait list so might just get it for my girl.

Nope, she doesn't attend any chinese enrichment class but I've recently send her for this Chinese P1 Prep, a 1 to 1 session. Need to desperately bring her level up to speed.

gorilla :hi5: I am desperately trying to bring my girl's standard up to speed as well before P1, so every night she is having intensive Chinese lessons conducted by me (which means this potato mummy is studying every night to prepare lessons too)

[gorilla]

michyms,


Good on you for doing nightly intensive chinese with your girl. I must admit I'm lazy I also don't wanna frighten her off Chinese. I'm trying to make learning Chinese fun hence the dvds. I also bought san zi jing, di zi gui vcd from Popular and just play them before bed time. It's animation and songs. Thus far it has pretty good results. My girl is able to recite the entire 'Ren Zi Chu'. And the best part, my younger girl is an 'accidental learner'! @ 2+ she surprised me by reciting the entire 'ren zi chu'

[michyms]

gorilla, I can imagine your little one reciting the ren zi chu... they are so cute at this age :rahrah: My youngest boy is also 2+ and I am constantly amazed at what he picks up from his sisters, or from TV!!

[gorilla]

michyms, yep she's at the cute stage now! The bulk of her learning came from her sister and TV! She's a TV addict!

[Tinkerbelle]

michyms:

Tinkerbelle, what do you think we can do to help our kids with oral? I have been making dd read CHinese books everyday (by rewarding her with iPad games)... but maybe i need to get her to watch chinese dramas too! That's how I picked up Chinese when I was young

Hi michyms,
Reading Chinese books with your DD every day is a good start. With more exposure, hopefully, she will develop more interest in Chinese and can recognise more Chinese characters. Reading will help her greatly as one of the components of the oral exams is reading a passage.

Make learning Chinese fun.....For example, bring her to the park/playground and describe different scenarios at the park. This will be similar to the Chinese Oral, except for oral, you are looking at a picture of a park.

For example, a boy is pushing a girl on a swing. They seem to be enjoying themselves. Some children are playing on the slide. A few children are queueing up to wait for their turns but one boy is jumping the queue. The girl in front of him looks angry. I think the boy should queue up in an orderly manner.

Get your DD familiarised with common vocab in the park, such as swing, see-saw, slide, exercise, cycling, skating etc. Some common places tested in Chinese oral for P1 are park, playground, zoo, classroom, beach.

If you are interested, you can go to Popular & flip through some P1 Chinese Oral book to get a feel of the common topics tested and the vocab used for each topic. I bought 1 set of Chinese Oral book with a CD-Rom and let DD listen to how the picture can be described and she enjoys it. The pictures are colourful and it's easy to follow. After listening to the CD a few times, she picked up on the sentence structure for each scene and is able to repeat most of it.

Yes, I find watching Mandarin dramas help too. DD2 used to hate Chinese but now, she'll watch Chinese shows and she's picking up more vocab from the shows too.

[Tinkerbelle]

cantbearit2:

Tinkerbelle:

Hi,
Yes, we are going to the fun fair this Saturday. DD1will be helping out at the fun fair and DD2 just want to meet up with her friends and play to her heart's content.

Hope to see some P1 (2012) parents bring their kids over for some fun. It's a great way to introduce the kids to their new school. Hopefully, they will associate 'fun' with their new school. :evil:

Hi Tinkerbelle,

We r gg to e fun fair too. Which stall will yur DD1 b mending? We will patronise tat stall. Hee.... :evil:

Dun forget to come up & say hello if u c me ya?!

Hi cantbearit2,
All P6 will be mending different stalls at the Fun Fair on Saturday but DD1 is not sure where she'll be posted yet. Will let you know once she hears anything. Thanks for your support. :salute:

Yup, will definitely chase after you to say hello if I spot you...keke. Hope I can still recognise you.
DD2 is so ecxited about the Fun Fair. She's already telling me which teachers she want to dunk. Then she told me : Mummy, you can dunk the Principal.\" :evil:

[Tinkerbelle]

michyms:

gorilla:

No worries michyms. Yes a good idea! I've borrowed the books from the library

but long wait list so might just get it for my girl.

Nope, she doesn't attend any chinese enrichment class but I've recently send her for this Chinese P1 Prep, a 1 to 1 session. Need to desperately bring her level up to speed.

gorilla :hi5: I am desperately trying to bring my girl's standard up to speed as well before P1, so every night she is having intensive Chinese lessons conducted by me (which means this potato mummy is studying every night to prepare lessons too)

Just for your info, for P1, the first 3 months is purely HYPY; no Chinese characters at all. If your DD's kindergarten covers HYPY, your DDs should do well for Term 1. In Term 2, still HYPY but with some exposure to very basic Chinese characters.

Oral exams will only start end of Term 2 in May so plenty of time to get your DDs ready for oral.

[gorilla]

Thanks Tinkerbelle.


The standard of Chinese in her kindy is not good but after numerous feedback, I'm seeing improvements. HYPY is taught but I guess it's not enough cos it's only 45 min daily to cover HYPY, reading, writing etc. I bought the HYPY disc and the 'singing' helps her memorise! I'm focusing more on chinese characters recognition since HYPY is only for 1 semester.

Also speaking to her more so that she'll be able to at least hold a simple conversation when she starts P1. Keeping fingers crossed!

[michyms]

Tinkerbelle:

Just for your info, for P1, the first 3 months is purely HYPY; no Chinese characters at all. If your DD's kindergarten covers HYPY, your DDs should do well for Term 1. In Term 2, still HYPY but with some exposure to very basic Chinese characters.

Oral exams will only start end of Term 2 in May so plenty of time to get your DDs ready for oral.

Thanks for the info, Tinkerbelle. I recall you mentioned that the girls will take some kind of mini test around week 7 or 8 so that teachers can \"stream\" them unto different classes for Chinese lessons? Wouldn't it be quite unfair to determine their standards based a HYPY test? :scratchhead: very unfair to kids who did not do hypy in kidney (understand some kindies do not teach hypy)....

[michyms]

Tinkerbelle:

Hi michyms,
Reading Chinese books with your DD every day is a good start. With more exposure, hopefully, she will develop more interest in Chinese and can recognise more Chinese characters. Reading will help her greatly as one of the components of the oral exams is reading a passage.

Make learning Chinese fun.....For example, bring her to the park/playground and describe different scenarios at the park. This will be similar to the Chinese Oral, except for oral, you are looking at a picture of a park.

For example, a boy is pushing a girl on a swing. They seem to be enjoying themselves. Some children are playing on the slide. A few children are queueing up to wait for their turns but one boy is jumping the queue. The girl in front of him looks angry. I think the boy should queue up in an orderly manner.

Get your DD familiarised with common vocab in the park, such as swing, see-saw, slide, exercise, cycling, skating etc. Some common places tested in Chinese oral for P1 are park, playground, zoo, classroom, beach.

If you are interested, you can go to Popular & flip through some P1 Chinese Oral book to get a feel of the common topics tested and the vocab used for each topic. I bought 1 set of Chinese Oral book with a CD-Rom and let DD listen to how the picture can be described and she enjoys it. The pictures are colourful and it's easy to follow. After listening to the CD a few times,
she picked up on the sentence structure for each scene and is able to repeat most of it.

Yes, I find watching Mandarin dramas help too. DD2 used to hate Chinese but now, she'll watch Chinese shows and she's picking up more vocab from the shows too.

Tinkerbelle, thanks, the CD sounds like a great idea! I think I am the one who needs it because as I was reading what you wrote about the playground, I was furiously thinking about what slide, see saw etc in Chinese and can't seem to recall :faint: how did I even get through my A levels chinese??? :oops: